Surgical anvil manufacturing methods

A method for manufacturing a surgical stapling anvil is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of manufacturing a first anvil member and a second anvil member. The first anvil member comprises a tissue-facing surface comprising a plurality of staple forming pockets defined therein and a longitudinal cavity comprising anvil ledges configured to be engaged by anvil-camming portions of a firing member of a surgical stapling instrument. The method further comprises the steps of polishing the ledges of the first anvil member and welding the first anvil member and the second anvil member together.

Motorized surgical instrument

A surgical cutting and fastening instrument that is motorized. The instrument comprises in one embodiment a charge accumulator device, separate from a battery, that provides additional power to the motor under certain conditions. In addition, the motor may comprise multiple windings.

OPTICALLY OCCLUSIVE PROTECTIVE ELEMENT FOR BONDED STRUCTURES

An optically occlusive protective element for bonded structures, embodiments of which disclosed herein relate to directly bonded structures along a bond interface. Specifically, two elements, a semiconductor element and an occlusive element, may be directly bonded to one another without an intervening adhesive along a bonding interface. The semiconductor element includes active circuitry which, after bonding, is protected by the occlusive element. The occlusive element includes several optically occlusive layers which are arranged to inhibit an optical interrogation of the active circuitry. Such layers may further include occlusive strips which may or may not overlap with other occlusive strips from other occlusive layers when the occlusive layers are stacked vertically.

METHODS FOR IMPROVING SPATIAL PERFORMANCE

Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for determining a presence or abundance of an analyte in a biological sample. The methods disclosed herein include: (a) providing a biological sample on a substrate comprising a plurality of capture probes, wherein a capture probe of the plurality of capture probes comprises a capture domain; (b) releasing the analyte from the biological sample; (c) affixing a stretching moiety to the analyte; (d) hybridizing the analyte to the capture domain of the capture probe; (e) applying a stretching force to the stretching moiety, thereby elongating the analyte hybridized to the capture domain; and (f) generating an extended capture probe using the analyte as a template.

AUGMENTED REALITY PLACEMENT OF GONIOMETER OR OTHER SENSORS

Systems and methods for positioning one or more sensors on a user. The system has user sensors, apparatus sensors, and treatment sensors. A processing device, executing computer readable instructions stored in a memory, cause the processing device to: generate an enhanced environment representative of an environment; receive apparatus data representative of a location of the apparatus in the environment; generate an apparatus avatar in the enhanced environment; receive user data representative of a location of the user in the environment; generate a user avatar in the enhanced environment; receive treatment data representative of one or more locations of the treatment sensors in the environment; generate, treatment sensor avatars in the enhanced environment; calculate a treatment location for each treatment sensor, wherein the treatment location is associated with an anatomical structure of a user; and generate instruction data representing an instruction for positioning the treatment sensors at the treatment location.

SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING AN AI ENGINE TO ENFORCE DOSAGE COMPLIANCE BY CONTROLLING A TREATMENT APPARATUS

A system and method for enforcing a patient's compliance with medicine dosage using an artificial intelligence engine to control a treatment apparatus. A method is disclosed for generating, by an artificial intelligence agent, a dosage compliance plan on a treatment apparatus. The method includes receiving one or more dosage compliance plans that, when applied to one or more users, encourage users to comply with medical prescriptions; receiving data associated with the user, wherein the data comprises at least one modified attribute of the user and at least one attribute of the medical prescription; receiving one or more constraints, wherein the one or more constraints comprises rules pertaining to dosage amounts associated with the one or more dosage compliance plans; and generating, via an artificial intelligence engine, an optimal dosage compliance plan for the user comprising the at least one modified attribute of the user associated with the at least one attribute of the medical prescription.

Real-time carbon footprint estimation

Methods and systems are provided for estimating a carbon footprint of a vehicle in real-time. In one example, the carbon footprint is estimated based on blockchain data. The blockchain data may record carbon emissions generated along one or more energy supply chains of the vehicle, and the estimated carbon footprint may be displayed at a user interface at a list of estimated carbon footprints corresponding to recharging or refueling sites.

Adaptive mobile power generation system

This disclosure generally relates to power generation methods and systems based on gas turbine engines, and particularly to mobile and adaptive power generation systems and methods based on gas turbine engine for supplying mechanical and/or electrical power for fracturing operations at an oil wellsite. Various systems, platforms, components, devices, and methods are provided for flexibly and adaptively configure one of more gas turbines, hydraulic pumps, and electric generators to support both fracturing and electric demands at a well site. The disclosed implementations enable and facilitate a mobile, adaptive, and reconfigurable power system to provide both mechanical and electric power for hydraulic fracturing operation.

Valve spring fixing device and plunger pump

A valve spring fixing device and a plunger pump are disclosed. The valve spring fixing device includes a spring fixing piece, which includes a first supporting surface and a second supporting surface located at two ends of the spring fixing piece, and an intermediate portion located between the first supporting surface and the second supporting surface; and a spring mounting portion connected with the intermediate portion and configured to mount a valve spring, the first supporting surface and the second supporting surface are configured to contact with a valve box to fix the valve spring fixing device.

Continuous high-power turbine fracturing equipment

A high-power turbine fracturing system may include a lubrication system, which may include a first lubrication unit configured to lubricate a plunger pump. The first lubrication unit may further include a high-pressure lubrication unit. The high-pressure lubrication unit may include a high-pressure motor, a high-pressure pump, and a high-pressure oil line. The high-pressure motor may be configured to drive the high-pressure pump, which may be configured to pump high-pressure lubricating oil into the high-pressure oil line. The high-pressure oil line may be configured to lubricate at least one of connecting rod bearing bushes or crosshead bearing bushes in the plunger pump.